On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.9 and 1.1.3 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.9 and 3.3.3.

These patch releases includes numerous dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes (1.0.9 and 1.1.3) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

The release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.0-M2 release.

This release includes numerous enhancements, documentation improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

Notable new features include:

• Custom Object Mapper - you can provide your own Jackson ObjectMapper that Pulsar will use when producing and consuming JSON messages (more details)

• Default Tenant and Namespace - you can specify a default tenant and/or namespace to use when producing or consuming messages against a non-fully-qualified topic URL (more details)

• Updates to next minor version of Spring, Reactor, and Micrometer libraries

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Spring AI now supports NVIDIA's Large Language Model API, offering integration with a wide range of models. By leveraging NVIDIA's OpenAI-compatible API, Spring AI allows developers to use NVIDIA's LLMs through the familiar Spring AI API.

We'll explore how to configure and use the Spring AI OpenAI chat client to connect with NVIDIA LLM API.

• The demo application code is available in the nvidia-llm GitHub repository.
• The SpringAI / NVIDIA integration documentation.

Prerequisite

• Create NVIDIA account with sufficient credits.
• Select your preferred LLM model from NVIDIA's offerings. Like the meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct in the screenshot below.
• From the model's page, obtain the API key for your chosen model.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.0.3 and 2023.1.9 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.3.3, respective 3.2.9 will pick up the above releases by next week.

2024.0.3

• Spring Data Commons 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Gradle and Develocity engineer and Spring community legend Eric Haag

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.12, 6.0.23 and 5.3.39 are available now. While 5.3.38 has also been released, it got superseded by 5.3.39.

• Spring Framework 6.1.12 ships with 43 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.9 and Spring Boot 3.3.3, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 6.0.23 ships with 14 fixes and documentation improvements.
• Spring Framework 5.3.39 ships with 1 fixes plus the 12 fixes and documentation improvements of 5.3.38.

Please note that OSS support for 5.3.x and 6.0.x ends on August 31, 2024. As such, 5.3.39 and 6.0.23 are meant to be the last OSS releases. Commercial support is available…

We are happy to announce the availability of the seventh milestone of Spring Framework 6.2. We shipped quite a few features since the last M6 release.

Spring Framework 6.2.0-M7 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now, check out the detailed changelog for this version.

Core and Native Support

This release contains various improvements in the core of the framework, including to the cache abstraction's error handling. It adds a flexible multi-unit format to the previously introduced Duration parsing/printing support.

On the topic of Native Support, it is now possible to ignore bean registration during AOT processing thanks to a newly introduced attribute. Beans registered with the Kotlin DSL…

The Spring Framework has released versions 5.3.39, 6.0.23, and 6.1.12 that contain fixes for CVE-2024-38809, DoS via conditional HTTP requests.

The 5.3.39 release contains an additional fix for CVE-2024-38808, DoS via SpEL expression.

Note that version 5.3.39 has fixes for both CVEs. Version 5.3.38 was released earlier on the same day, and it contains the fix for CVE-2024-38809 but not CVE-2024-38808.

Upgrading Your Project

Commercial customers using Spring Boot 2.7, 3.0, or 3.1 can make use of Spring Boot Hotfix releases 2.7.21.1, 3.0.16.1, and 3.1.12.1. Releases are available now on the Spring commercial artifact repository and can be accessed with a Spring Enterprise Subscription…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday and work is well underway to prepare for the huge SpringOne event in Las Vegas in just a few short week's time! I'm elated! So, let's get this roundup on the road so I can get back to the preparation frenzy...

• Spring AI Embraces OpenAI's Structured Outputs: Enhancing JSON Response Reliability
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Dataflow, Spring Cloud Task, and Spring Batch legend Glenn Renfro
• in last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at using Spring Boot and HTMX together
• I love this: a bunch of opensource projects are working on a common set of annotations to convey nullability and null-restricted types in Java
• I love this: IntelliJ IDEA has a new feature: multi-project workspaces…